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Judith Miller's "Story": Setting the Record Straight
Real Clear Politics ^ | April 8, 2015 | By Peter Berkowitz

Posted on 04/08/2015 5:15:04 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

“In the spring of 2002, a year before the invasion of Iraq, I was at the peak of my profession,” Judith Miller writes in the prologue to “The Story: A Reporter's Journey,” her compelling account of her life in journalism. Miller had been a versatile reporter at The New York Times for 25 years, but her special beat was the Arab world, Islamic extremism, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and war.

She was part of the Times staff that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for its investigation of al-Qaeda's pre-9/11 global network; she received an Emmy that year for a documentary based on her co-authored book “Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War.” She was nine years into a happy marriage to New York publishing eminence Jason Epstein.

Three years later, with her reporting “mired in controversy,” the Times drove her out. A swarm of bloggers and more than a few fellow print journalists accused her of “hyping” the threat of WMD posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq, thus helping President George W. Bush and his team sell a misbegotten war to the American public. At best, Miller was blamed for lacking the requisite skepticism any serious reporter must have, for ignoring facts, and distorting information. At worst, she was charged with having morphed into one of the dreaded neoconservatives who, according to this media caricature, sought to export democracy to the Arab world by sword and fire.

Miller’s longtime Times colleagues—led by publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., Executive Editor Bill Keller, Managing Editor Jill Abramson, and columnist Maureen Dowd—threw her overboard in fall 2005. They had reason to have known better. . .

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1 posted on 04/08/2015 5:15:04 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Sulzberger, Keller, Abramson and Dowd, the Four Horses-Asses of the Liberal Apocalypse

Miller never had a chance. I hope that now that she has pulled their collective knives out of her back, that she start looking their bias and tell us about it.


2 posted on 04/08/2015 5:22:44 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (madmax)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

From watching her on Fox News, she continues to carry the Left’s water. Why I’ll never know, but this was a really sorry story to read.

I hope the first thing President TED CRUZ does is to pardon Libby & show that hia prosecution was a criminal mistake.


3 posted on 04/08/2015 5:37:24 PM PDT by Twotone (Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Goes to show what a unscrupulous cesspool the Slimes really is.


4 posted on 04/08/2015 5:50:25 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I’ve always felt a ‘good riddance to her’ and whenever she’s On, I change the channel. Zero credibility in my book.


5 posted on 04/08/2015 5:55:07 PM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
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To: Reno89519

“I’ve always felt a ‘good riddance to her’ and whenever she’s On, I change the channel. Zero credibility in my book.”

Her biggest mistake is she didn’t become a raving banshee against the right like all her liberal journalist colleagues. Then all would be forgiven. Facts and truth wouldn’t need to apply then.


6 posted on 04/08/2015 6:44:12 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Twotone
I hope the first thing President TED CRUZ does is to pardon Libby & show that hia prosecution was a criminal mistake.

Fitz should be in jail for what he did.

Most people will remember, Fitz spent 3 years trying to find out who exposed Valerie Plame as a CIA employee... and hid the fact that the person responsible for the leak called him and confessed that he was the source ON DAY ONE of the "investigation". That was Richard Armitage. Armitage was ordered to remain silent, and Fitz's campaign to put someone, anyone, in jail from Cheney's office continued until he finally got Libby.

Libby should certainly be pardoned, and Fitz should be sued into bankruptcy and then jailed.

7 posted on 04/08/2015 7:03:05 PM PDT by marron
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To: Brad from Tennessee
"[S]he was charged with having morphed into one of the dreaded neoconservative."
She ran into the people at the Times who are motivated by two things: feelings and peer-pressure. Then the people at the Times called her names and told her to scram.

The atmosphere of the Times and of many colleges is like that of a grade-school playground.
8 posted on 04/08/2015 7:29:15 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: Twotone

So does most of fox it would seem.


9 posted on 04/08/2015 7:57:45 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: marron
Libby should certainly be pardoned,

My opinion of Bush never recovered after he failed to give Libby a full pardon. Along with the pardon, Bush should have made a public statement that showed his disgust with the Fitzgerald prosecution, and explained to the American public what really happened.

I bet that most leftists STILL believe that Libby outed Valerie Plame.

10 posted on 04/08/2015 8:43:04 PM PDT by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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My opinion of Bush never recovered after he failed to give Libby a full pardon.

Me too.

And, obviously, my opinion of Colin Powell sank to an all new and permanent low, since he knew the truth from the beginning and remained silent while a good man was turned into mince meat.

11 posted on 04/08/2015 10:03:23 PM PDT by marron
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